Bharti Airtel has brought the HTC Magic (aka G2) as India’s first Android phone.The HTC Magic is the successor of the HTC G1 phone – worlds first phone with Google’s Open Source Android OS . “HTC is proud to partner with Airtel in launching the much anticipated Android –powered HTC Magic in India…..HTC has always been known for its industry firsts and technology advancements, and is thus a natural partner to Airtel,” said Jack Tong, Vice President, HTC Asia.
“The HTC Magic presents a powerful mobile internet and multimedia experience that should drive the uptake of accessing the internet over mobile amongst Airtel users,” said Raghunath Mandava, chief marketing officer, mobile services, Bharti Airtel. Airtel customers can also avail free data download of 100 MB per month for a period of 6 months.
The detailed specifications of the new Android powered HTC Magic mobile phone are:
- Display:3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat capacitive touchscreen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition
- Camera : 3.2 megapixel with auto focus
- Operating system : Android 1.5
- CPU :Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz processor
- Memory Internal: 192 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
- Memory card : microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
- Networks : GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz,HSDPA 900/2100
- 3G :HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps
- WLAN :Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Bluetooth : v2.0 with A2DP
- HTC ExtUSB™ (mini-USB 2.0 plug compatible, but with 6 extra pins for audio)
- Battery : 1340 mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion battery,Talk time Up to 7.5 hours
- Music : MP3 player
- Others
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- Physical size :113 x 55 x 13.65 mm
- Weight : 118.5 grams
- Colors :White, Black
Price and Availabilty : The HTC Magic mobile phone will cost Rs. 29,990 and will be available in Airtel Relationship Centres and authorized HTC resellers in 17 cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Patna.
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Press Release
Bharti Airtel Introduces India’s First Android™ Phone, the HTC Magic for Airtel Customers
| • | The Android ™ platform opens up an unique opportunity to Airtel customers to customize their device with multiple mobile applications |
| • | Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search |
| • | HTC Magic offers cutting edge innovation with 3G capabilities, 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen, and 3.2 mega-pixel camera for an unmatched personalised mobile Web experience |
| • | Airtel customers to get free data download of 100 MB per month for 6 months |
| • | HTC Magic available at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers across 17 cities |
Airtel has been a frontrunner in bringing innovative and cutting edge technology to its customers. The Android™ powered HTC Magic opens new arena for customers and the developer community to interact in order to bring new applications to Android-based phones. The introduction of the Android™ platform in India is a step in this direction where innovation, development and deployment of mobile applications are encouraged in an ‘open ecosystem’. The Android™ platform not only gives Airtel a faster go to market capability but also helps to provide more rich & varied service offerings for all Airtel users while creating commercial viability for small developers/entrepreneurs.
“Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector. Being the first to bring the Android™ powered HTC Magic to India further underscores our commitment to enrich the communication experience of all Airtel users.” said, Raghunath Mandava, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel. Added, “The HTC Magic presents a powerful mobile internet and multimedia experience that should drive the uptake of accessing the internet over mobile amongst Airtel users.”
HTC Magic opens up a whole new mobile experience for all Airtel users. A tablet-style device, with a sleek design and extraordinary compactness for a smartphone, the HTC Magic presents a supreme mobile internet and multimedia experience. Enhanced with Outlook synchronization, Smart Dialler, and an onscreen keyboard with predictive text, the HTC Magic is a true entertainment and communication powerhouse. Also, to begin with, Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search on the HTC Magic.
Jack Tong, Vice President, HTC Asia, said, “HTC is proud to partner with Airtel in launching the much-anticipated Android™-powered HTC Magic in India. The HTC Magic opens up a whole new world of possibilities for people to enrich and customise their mobile phone. HTC has always been known for its industry firsts and technology advancements, and is thus a natural partner to Airtel.”
For Airtel customers, HTC Magic also allows free data download of 100 MB per month for a period of 6 months. The HTC Magic will be available at a market price of Rs. 29,990/- at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers across 17 cities. The cities include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar and Patna.
The Android™ platform constitutes a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of 47 technology and mobile companies, Android™ brings Internet-style innovation and openness to mobile phones and enables developers to create mobile applications to optimise the functionalities of the mobile phone. Android™ does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications, thus providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services.
Airtel applications available with HTC Magic
| 1 | Portfolio Manager |
| Portfolio Manager is Mobile Client application to provide general public a secured and user friendly service platform. Its objective is to facilitate investors in Indian share market to manage their portfolio in a handsome way. Special offer for HTC Magic users – 3 Months subscription waiver | |
| 2 | Hello Tunes Manager |
| Hello Tunes Manager will be used by subscribers to search for, buy and share hello tunes/hello tune albums. You can use Hello Tunes Manager to send/receive hello tune recommendations from friends, rate hello tunes and much more. Special offer for HTC Magic – Free Hello Tune downloads for one month. | |
| 3 | Weather Channel |
| This application provides detailed weather forecasts for the current day and next 6 days. Any location of user’s choice can be marked as favorite. The user can obtain weather forecast for (a) Current location (b) Favorite location (c) Any other location of choice. | |
| 4 | Mobshare |
| MobShare is a Mobile phone picture sharing Application that enables Immediate, controlled, and organized sharing of mobile pictures, and the browsing, of the shared Pictures. | |
| 5 | In-Mobile Search |
| This application enables the user to search for contacts, image files, audio files and video files from a single interface. The user can search any of the above mentioned files starting with the query string entered. It provides the user to view the image or play the audio / video files without the use of any external applications. | |
| 6 | City Search |
| This application incorporates both location and data call technology, steering you towards the very best activities that your city has to offer. For the selected category, the application retrieves appropriate list of options for any location review. The application provides the full information (address, contact number and other information) for any selected option. User also has an option to call the selected option or SMS the info from the application. | |
| The unique features of HTC Magic | |
| 1 | Superior support and unbeatable mobile internet experience |
| HTC Magic features a trackball with zoom in/out function. It is also equipped with fit-the-width rendering, and auto screen rotation for an easier navigation experience and internet browsing. | |
| 2 | Providing broad flexibility for personalisation |
| The HTC Magic has a 3.2” HVGA touch screen display and features a trackball for easy access and a 3.2 mega-pixel camera. It provides full fidelity PC browsing experience, where users can expand and personalise their phone to fit their lifestyle. | |
| 3 | Simply Better |
| HTC Magic is enhanced with cool HTC goodies like Smart Dialler and a versatile on-screen keyboard. Smart Dialler lets you call people in whatever way you like, by either dialling the phone number or by dialling the first few letters of the name of the contact. The versatile keyboard helps to choose the favourite way to type and the predictive text completion helps in typing much faster. | |
| 4 | Choose Your Connections |
| Take your inbox with you wherever you go. HTC Magic allows Microsoft Exchange server synchronisation for email, calendar and contacts. Simply put, with HTC Magic, one can always keep the personal and office emails flowing. | |
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of over 102.34 million customers as of end of May 2009, consisting of 99.55 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted as India’s most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units – Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 95 cities, DTH services and has recently forayed into the IPTV services. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 101,337 Rkms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems – i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit: www.bhartiairtel.in
About HTC
Founded in 1997, HTC Corporation (HTC) is a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design. Since its establishment, HTC has developed strong R&D capabilities, pioneered many new designs and product innovations and launched state-of-the-art mobile phones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the US, Asia and around the world. HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile device market. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.
